It is well-known that gender is an independent risk factor for some types of cardiac
arrhythmias. For example, males have a greater prevalence of atrial fibrillation and the …

Gender differences play a major role in the manifestation of cardiovascular disease
including cardiac arrhythmias. In particular, female sex is an independent risk factor for …

Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a disorder associated with prolonged electrocardiographic QT
intervals and the development of ventricular arrhythmias. LQTS occurs as a congenital form …

Women have a longer QT interval than men, which appears to evolve after puberty
suggesting that sex hormones have an influence on cardiac electrophysiology. Sex …

Sex differences in cardiac electrophysiological properties and arrhythmias are evident in
epidemiologic and investigative studies as well as in daily patient care. At the …

Sex-related differences in prevalence, clinical presentation, and outcome of cardiac
channelopathies are increasingly recognized, despite their autosomal transmission and …

Acute effects of sex steroid hormones likely contribute to the observation that post-pubescent
males have shorter QT intervals than females. However, the specific role for hormones in …

Gender differences in cardiac repolarization and the arrhythmogenic risk of patients with
inherited and acquired long QT syndromes are well appreciated clinically. Enhancing our …

Female sex is an independent risk factor for development of torsade de pointes (TdP)
arrhythmias not only in congenital long QT syndromes but also in acquired long QT …

Sex differences exist in the structure and function of human heart. The patterns of ventricular
repolarization in normal electrocardiograms (ECG) differ in men and women: men ECG …